Both Huskey and Taylor were made Computer History Museum (CHM) Fellows in 2013. Taylor was too ill to attend the 2013 banquet. The 30th year of CHM Fellow Awards is being celebrated at Friday's CHM Fellows Banquet, and Huskey and Taylor will be remembered at that event. Here is an excerpt from the press release <https://finance.yahoo.com/news/computer-history-museum-celebrates-30-100000296.html> : *During the gala ceremony, the Museum will also pay special tribute to 2013 Fellow Award Honorees Robert Taylor and Harry Huskey, who passed away earlier this year. Taylor oversaw or funded many key developments in computing over the last 55 years: the mouse and web-like online systems at NASA and ARPA; the ARPANET; and the defining features of the modern PC at Xerox PARC, including the Alto personal computer, internetworking, and Ethernet. Huskey worked with computing legend Alan Turing on the Pilot ACE machine, developed the SWAC and Bendix G-15 computers, and spent much of his life as an educator, most recently at UC Santa Cruz.* _________________________ Brian A. Berg / bberg@StanfordAlumni.org Berg Software Design 14500 Big Basin Way, Suite F, Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Voice: 408.741.5010 / Cell: 408.568.2505 Consulting: Flash Memory/USB/Storage/Patents visit the Storage Cornucopia: www.bswd.com FMS Technical Chair: www.FlashMemorySummit.com IEEE Milestone <http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones> Coordinator for Region 6 <http://www.ieee-region6.org/> IEEE SCV Section <http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/> Chair (2012) / IEEE-CNSV <http://www.CaliforniaConsultants.org> Board Director IEEE SCV History Committee <http://www.SiliconValleyHistory.com/> Chair On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Huskey was the last living member of
any of the pre-industry computer development teams. I cannot help but feel that this marks the passing of the founding generation of our field and the end of an era.
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